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Petitioners Ask White House to End Software Patents

Law360September 26, 2011

In Depth

Leigh Martinson said that, despite the fact that thousands of signatures appear on a petition calling for abolition of all software patents sent to the White House, “I can’t imagine the government is going to go out of its way to make a statement with regard to this.” Mr. Martinson noted that the new patent reform law did not address software patents, and that it would be highly impractical to void such patents. “Hundreds of man-hours of labor can go into creating software,” he added. “Why should you not be able to protect that work?”